We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
We eat light, drink it in through our skins. With a little more exposure to light, you feel part of things physically.… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light. — James Turrell Copy Share Image
